In a post on the official Facebook blog, new video features were announced that are already major staples of YouTube. First, they've added the ability to control the distribution of videos, adding options to make videos "secret," or to block them from being embedded on third-party sites. The "secret" video option gives users the ability to upload vids that are accessible only via a direct URL, but are not searchable on Facebook. In other words, secret videos are basically YouTube's unlisted vids.

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Facebook also added tools familiar to any YouTube user, like the ability to add custom thumbnails for videos, using your own image or a suggested thumbnail, and to label videos based on interest categories, like entertainment, news, sports, etc.

Lastly, Facebook introduced a new video library for users similar to YouTube's "My Channel" page, so you can keep track of all your videos and their stats.

Even though a lot of these new tools feel super YouTube-y, they also added some new tricks that are def unique to FB: the ability to distribute videos to users of a certain demographic, and to post a video straight to your videos page without sharing it on your feed. So at least they're adding their own twist to video sharing, too.